Friday, 26. July 2013
Topic: ART - on July 26, 2013 at 6:31:00 PM CEST
Speed enforced by (armed) drones? Nope — artist installs fake traffic signs
California commuters may have been alarmed last week by highway signs that warned them that they were being watched by missile-equipped drones. But the signs were fake, installed by an artist from Napa, and have quickly been taken down by the California Highway Patrol.
The art project was inspired by real road signs. "I thought to myself, speed [monitored] by aircraft is kind of ridiculous, how are you going to enforce it?" the artist Stephen Whisler, who is 59 and lives in Napa, Calif., told NBC news, explaining why the "Speed enforced by drones" signs he put up last Monday show a Predator firing a missile.
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